Suspenders.



PATENTED' JULY 24 1906.

B. F. WRIGHT.

SUSPENDERS.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.29. 1905.

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the trousers.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24, 1 906.

Application filed December 29, 1905. Serial No, 293,748.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. WRIGHT, a citizen of the United Statesof America, residing at Luthersburg, in the county of Clearfield andState of Pennsylvania, have invent ed certain new and usefulImprovements in Suspenders, of which the following is a specification,reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements insuspenders; and the invention has for its primary object the provisionof novel means for securing a pair of suspenders to a pair of trousersor the like garment without the use of buttons or buttonholes.

My invention aims to provide novel means in connection with a pair ofsuspenders for fastening the suspenders to a pair of trousers should oneof the buttons of the trousers become detached therefrom, and in thisconnection the auxiliary means which I employ for supporting trouserscan also be used for supporting nether garments in connection withBriefly described, myinvention resides in using an ordinary pair ofsuspenders embodying adjustable shoulder-straps and providing the endsof said straps with detachable tabs having buttonholes formed thereinand provided with clasps which may be used in lieu of the buttonholes.

The detail construction of my invention will be hereinafter more fullydescribed, and, referring to the drawings accompanying this application,like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout bothviews, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of a pair of suspendersconstructed in accordance with my invention, and Fig. 2 is an edge Viewof one of the tabs carried by the suspenders.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated a pair of conventionalsuspenders embodying adjustable shoulder straps 1 1, which are connectedtogether, as at 2, forming rear depending ends 3 3. The forwardadjustable ends 4 4 of the suspenders are provided with links 5 5, towhich are detachably connected supporting-straps 6 6;

My invention resides in providing the ends of the supporting-straps 6 6with links 7 7, and in each link I detachably mount a tab 8. Each tabconsists of a strap having its one end provided with a buttonhole 9,while its opposite end is adapted to pass through the links 7 of thesupporting-straps 6 and have its end provided with a clasp 10, saidclasp being adapted to engage a pin 11, carried by the body portion ofthe tab. The clasp 10, together with the pin 11, conforms to theordinary type of clasp commonly used in connection with gloves, theclasp portion 10 being adapted to engage the cone-shaped head 12 of thepin 11 and be held in engagement therewith until the clasp end of thetab is pulled outwardly from engagement with the pin 11. The reardepending ends 3 3 of the suspenders are provided with links 14 14,carrying tabs 15 15, similar to the tabs 8 8, but slightly larger thansaid tabs. In practice the clasp 10, together with the pin 1 1, isadapted to hold the tabs in engagement with the supporting-strap 6,while the buttonholes 9 are placed in engagement with buttons carried bya pair of trousers or the like garment. Should the button becomedetached from the trousers, the waistband 16 of the pair of trousers ismoved upwardly and placed between the clasp 10 and the pin 11; but priorto this movement of the waistband the same is provided with an opening17, whereby when it is moved it can be moved into engagement with a pin11 to permit of the clasp 10 engaging the pin and firmly' holding thewaistband the same as if a button were used.

In some instances the pins 11 of the tabs may be forced through thewaistband of a pan of trousers without cutting an opening 1n the same,and the tabs when so used are simply employed as auxiliary means for suporting the trousers until the buttons which have become detached can bereplaced.

It will be observed that the tabs are eX- tremely simple inconstruction, strong and durable, and comparatively inexpensive tomanufacture, and by slightly changing the depending ends 6 of thesuspenders the tabs can be readily used.

Such changes in the construction. of my improved suspenders as arepermissable by the appended claims may be resorted to without departingfrom the spirit and scope 01. the invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a pair of suspenders having depending rear endsand supporting-straps, of links carried by said ends and said straps,tabs detachably mounted in said links, each tab consisting of a straphaving a 3 and the supporting-straps ICC buttonhole formed in its oneend, a pin carried by said tab, a clasp carried by the opposite end ofsaid strap and adapted to engage said pin, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a pair of suspenders, of tabs carried by saidsuspenders, said tabs consisting of apiece of material having abuttonhole formed in its one end, a clasp carried by said tab andadapted to detach ably connect the tab to said suspenders, said claspcomprising two separable members, one attachedto the end of the tab, theother attached to the tab intermediate of its ends, substantially asdescribed.

connecting the tabs of the suspenders, said means being adapted toconnect the tabs to 20 trousers independently of said buttonholes.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

BENJAMIN F. WRIGHT.

Witnesses:

H. T. LUTHER, JOHN MEHRWLE.

